Fantastic new interview!

Y'know, I hate writing about myself (which probably explains why I blog so seldom), but Bill Jones Jr at Intentionally Left Blank seems to have brought me out of my shell. What a great guy!

This Blog Blank: So, we may as well get the good stuff out first. Can you tell us about your latest work?

Maggie Secara: Oh gosh, well, Molly September(Popinjay Press, June 2011) is the first novel I ever finished. And finished again. And started over from the top and did it again. At least one — possibly two — more times. Yes, it’s actually the book I started in college. So while it’s technically my latest work, it’s also my first.  It’s set in 1674, and it’s tons of fun. A nice fat paperback (or e-book) you can’t just skim through in a day, Molly is romantic, intense, and even funny; an adventure, a pirate movie, a love story and a buddy film, all wrapped up in a mystery. What really happened to Molly’s father? Dick Prentiss knows, and he’ll do almost anything to keep her from finding out.

TBB: When I fall in love with a book, invariably it’s when I can get lost in the descriptions – when it becomes real – sound, image, etc. Other people I know skip the descriptions and go straight to the dialogue. As writers, we are fortunate in being able to get lost in worlds we create. What causes you to get lost when you are writing a book?

I started out as a poet, and have spent a lot of time with musicians and actors. In other words, it's...[more]

Contest winners

Over 700 people entered for an autographed copy of Molly September! And the winners are (drum roll please!)

 Sharon Sands            Weymouth, Dorset, UK
 Barbara Villarreal       Sunrise Beach MO
 Becky Wollenslegel    Columbus OH
 Jessica Hicken           Calgary,  Alberta  Canada

I'll be getting those in the mail this week, never fear!
And thanks so much to everyone who entered!

October Giveaway: Molly September

While I'm planning a new novel, I think it's time to give away some books again. Check out the details and click the link (as soon as it's active) to enter at Goodreads.

And if that's not exciting enough by itself, how about Christine Butler's delightful review?

I was at once swept away with Molly, the beautiful redhead with a taste for adventure. I turned the pages and sat faithfully by waiting for Molly to be rescued from her dull and boring life, having been all but sold off to a foppish man rumored to have killed his last wife. Then Dick Prentiss whisked into her world, dazzled her with the promise of adventure, and together they set sail on a privateering adventure the likes of which I never could have dreamed, but was oh so glad to have enjoyed through this book!

Steamy scenes, swordplay, and drunken folly abound in Molly September. I laughed, I cried, and laughed some more. Maggie Secara set in place a fabulous world based on historical elements and places laced with fantastical adventures and heartening romance. Her book has quickly risen to my favorites shelf, where it shall remain, well worn for its many reads!

If you enjoy adventure on the high seas, a little bit of romance, and a lot of fantastic characters in your books, then you simply must go pick up a copy of Molly September! And while you're at it, go say hello to Mrs. Secara, because anyone who can transport me ship-side on such a believable privateering journey deserves a personal hello along with the purchase of her wonderful novel!

---Chrstine M. Butler, The Awakening Trilogy,  Moonlit Dreams